Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] be watch " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was watch television . |
| 2 | All they could do was watch and wait , trigger off several fuses and watch them burn until one of them , hopefully , ran its full course . |
| 3 | Police made fifty arrests , mostly on drugs charges , but say that for most of the time , all they could do was watch . |
| 4 | By the time they arrived the party was in full swing and all they could do was watch . |
| 5 | All he could do was watch and report back . |
| 6 | ‘ All he could do was watch helplessly as the defendant , shouting incoherently , went towards Mr Robinson and began to attack him . ’ |